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At least 19 killed in bus-truck crash in NE China

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-03-20 11:34

HARBIN -- At least 19 people were killed after a passenger bus collided with a truck in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province Thursday afternoon, a senior local official said.

A passenger bus is seen bumping into the rear of a truck after a crash that killed at least 19 people in northeast China's Heilongjiang province Thursday afternoon, March 19, 2009. [Xinhua]

The 42-seat bus carrying 41 people aboard bumped into the rear of a truck that was parking at the side of a section of the Harbin-Tongjiang expressway at about 17:45 pm, said Wang Weixu, deputy mayor of Harbin, the provincial capital.

The truck parked after it crashed with another vehicle a few minutes earlier.

The injured had been sent to hospitals but the number of those wounded was being verified.

Further investigation in the pileup was underway.

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